NewsRoyal Academy of Arts
Axel Rüger, director of Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, appointed new chief executive of Royal Academy
He succeeds Charles Saumarez Smith who stepped down in July 2018
InterviewArtist interview
Back to basics: Michael Craig-Martin on his new show in Windsor (Florida)
The conceptual artist brings a range of recent works stateside in a presentation co-organised by the Royal Academy of Arts
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Pierre Bonnard's colours-turned-up-to-11 at Tate Modern to Bill Viola's dust up with Michelangelo at the Royal Academy of Arts
FeatureBill Viola
Kira Perov: the ‘guardian angel’ in Bill Viola’s life and work
As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process
NewsRoyal Academy of Arts
Jock McFadyen announced as co-ordinator of Royal Academy's 251st Summer Exhibition
The Scottish painter will lead a committee of fellow artists to organise the annual contemporary art show
PreviewRoyal Academy of Arts
Royal Academy widens outreach with exhibition by homeless people
Art is Part of the Equation forms part of the institution’s push to make art more accessible
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Which exhibitions will be the blockbusters of 2019?
Major Leonardo and Rembrandt anniversaries mean a wealth of shows focusing on the Old Masters, but Tintoretto, the Bauhaus or Bill Viola could be dark horses
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Sir Charles steps down as chief-executive of the RA and settles a few old scores along the way
NewsExhibitions
The Getty’s Renaissance Nude explores issues of power and sexuality—but don’t expect a #metoo reckoning
The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the erotic drawings of Klimt and Schiele at the Royal Academy to a last chance to see two hard-hitting shows by Mika Rottenberg and Hannah Perry
ReviewBooks
Reputations redeemed by art: two books examine what made Charles I and II great collectors but bad rulers
Despite the failings of the Stuart kings, their art collections stand in their favour, as exhibitions in the UK this year have shown
PreviewExhibitions
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl served up in Royal Academy of Art’s Oceania show
Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Bob and Roberta Smith’s family values and pencil power at the Royal Academy of Arts
BlogIn the frame
No to Nigel—picture of Brexiteer Farage left on the shelf at Royal Academy
NewsAppointments & departures
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave Royal Academy of Arts to become senior director of Blain Southern
Secretary and chief executive of the London museum says he wanted to go “at a time of obvious strength and success”
NewsExhibitions
A match made in heaven: Bill Viola to be shown alongside Michelangelo at the Royal Academy
The exhibition will examine themes of spirituality and mortality in both artists’ work
FeatureArt Fund Museum of the Year 2018
The Postal Museum: a ride into the story of mail that really delivers
The newly opened museum takes visitors on a journey underground and reflects major shifts in the nature of human connection
BlogThe Buck stopped here
'Cut into your finger and sprinkle urine on bad dreams': Marina Abramovic shares her spiritual recipes
BlogThe Buck stopped here
A Riot of Subversion: Welcome to the House of Fun
NewsMuseums
Royal Academy launches new £34,000 postgraduate course. But who can afford it?
The institution is entering the lucrative world of branded education
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble
Podcast
Podcast episode 32: David Chipperfield on the new Royal Academy
The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses funding and the quirks of the institution and we review the buildings and its displays with Jane Morris.
FeatureMichelangelo
The UK's only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy
The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece
BlogThe Buck stopped here
From Shrimp Eyes to Tom Odell: Royal Academy's collection (and VIPs) serenaded at opening party
FeatureRoyal Academy
How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image
Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
Ignominy to influence: a history of women at the Royal Academy
London institution’s founders included two women, but a long period of male domination has only recently been challenged
BlogThe Buck stopped here
The private life of the Royal Academy revealed in TV documentary
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
We go behind the scenes as the Royal Academy celebrates 250 years
Delve into the heart of the revamped London institution—expanded, embellished and eccentric as ever
BlogIn the frame
A New Spirit of Painting makes a comeback (with one woman artist this time)
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
Monet takes on the city at the National Gallery and it is the final week of the once-in-a-lifetime Charles I show at the Royal Academy
InterviewFeatures
Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
From genre fluidity to the British artist's love of analogue film
BlogDiary of an art historian
The National Gallery’s issue of trust
I only found out by accident how well off the museum really is
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Anish Kapoor and Marina Abramovic battle it out at launch of new VR works
NewsJMW Turner
UK government places export bar on Turner’s Ehrenbreitstein
Arts minister Michael Ellis has stepped in to prevent the painting from being exported
NewsExhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts tried to borrow $450m Salvator Mundi for its Charles I exhibition
New London show has received glowing reviews but there is one conspicuous absentee
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From a triumphant show of Charles I's collection at the Royal Academy to an Andreas Gursky retrospective at the revamped Hayward Gallery
NewsExhibitions
Fit for a king? What the British press is saying about the new Charles I exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts show has received near unanimous reviews
NewsExhibitions
British invasion: Royal Academy teams up with Florida art space
Grayson Perry kicks off a series of three solo shows by RA artists at the Gallery at Windsor
PreviewExhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts reunites masterpieces from Charles I's collection—many for first time since his execution
Exhibition will include paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Van Dyck
NewsAcquisitions
Tacita Dean’s film of Hockney smoking bought by Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery
Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean
BlogDiary of an art historian
Stop reading, start looking: today’s art history students are not getting a grounding in connoisseurship skills
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2018
Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2018
From striking new spaces in France and the US to major revamps of old favourites in London and Los Angeles
NewsThree to see
Three to See in London in 2018
From King Charles I to the King of Pop
PreviewExhibitions
Life drawing from George III to Iggy Pop
Royal Academy of Arts exhibition explores the history of drawing the human figure and how artists depict it today
NewsEducation
New lease of life for life drawing classes?
Age-old practice is being ‘gradually reinvigorated', but new frontier is seemingly in 3D reprographic skills
ReviewExhibitions
Richard Wentworth and Kenneth Baker on Jasper Johns's retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts
“So many tropes going on in his work, it would make a lovely laundry list,” says the British artist of his US counterpart
BlogIn the frame
George Frederic Watts’s Physical Energy horseman rides into the RA—again
NewsThree to see
Three to see: London
From the British Museum's Lion Man to Matisse's studio studies at the Royal Academy
BlogIn the frame
Scoop: image surfaces of hacks at Royal Academy press view—in 1892
Chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith was surprised by rediscovered illustration
NewsExhibitions
First major UK survey of Oceanic art comes to the Royal Academy in 2018
London institution will also host shows on Klimt and Schiele, Charles I and Tacita Dean as part of its 250th anniversary year